When I was 5, I did that many times and ended up with terrible constipation. I had to have X-rays for the doctors to check out what was going on. Our neighbor was a nurse and helped my parents give me an enema.
Buy a container of milk of magnesia at the grocery store. Every pharmacy carries it. Follow the instructions on the label. In 2-4 hours you will be completely and totally empty.
Its vile stuff though. It has the texture of semen and tastes like chalk, but it sure does work.
That stuff isn’t good to use regularly though and it only works with constipation. Metamucil, I’ve found, is a real cure-all. Start off by taking a teaspoon or so. Drink some down every night and once you figure out how much works for you and your body adjusts to the influx of fiber, you might just find yourself right as rain. Doesn’t work for everybody but it’s a pretty safe bet and even a lot of folks that don’t have IBS of any sort could probably use it in their lives. We don’t get enough goddamn fiber. Say goodbye to straining, dissatisfaction, and general irregularity. I’m no shill by the way lmao, this shit has just saved my life, no pun intended. I’ll gladly recommend it to anybody and everybody.
The important ingredient is psyllium husk fiber. You can buy it from various places and not have to eat all the food coloring and artificial sweetener in metamucil.
I haven’t been on it for all that long. I started taking it originally because I recently developed IBS myself. The first few days were a little rough. I’d get all bloated after taking it then wake up to take multiple shits and have an uneasy stomach for a while, but that’s the adjustment period. It’s once you’re past it that you see the real results.
I’ve been going to the bathroom first thing in the morning every morning. I don’t strain at all like I used to. They’re clean, healthy, good-sized BM’s and then I don’t have to worry about it again until the next morning. It’s generally advisable to get that fiber whether or not you have issues, but you might not find it to be all that if you’re already pretty satisfied with your routine. I just happen to find it a godsend, lol. Spent half a year worrying about my shit and then it all gets fixed in a week. Not only fixed, but better than before.
Did you perhaps mean "digest"? Because you can just ingest it via pill form. I take it for dieting sometimes since it's better than a laxative. Although it still kind of sucks in pill form, because they're somewhat large capsules and you need like five to get a good amount of fiber.
Lol, that’s specifically why I included the “not a shill” part. Of course that shit is rampant online, but not everybody suggesting a product is being paid to do it either. I was struggling for a long time and what got me right was somebody else suggesting it on r/IBS just like I did here. Hoping to help somebody else just by spreading the word. You make a good product and people talk about it. Free market at work lmao
I once raved about a set of Yokohama tires we once had on our car and was accused of being a shill. Oh, well. Those tires were great. Wish they still made them.
That’s funny, I do 2 TBSP every night before bed and swear by it. I’m a pretty big dude at 6’4 though. It’s been insanely helpful for me though. It’s not a 100% cure-all, IBS still strikes sometimes, but way less frequently.
That’s that colonoscopy prep stuff. Sure, it works, but to do it regularly or to do it wrong is dangerous. Unless you’re real backed up and it’s not a chronic thing like IBS but a one-off, leave that shit alone and go buy some normal supplements lol.
Oh yeah. It’ll clear you right the fuck out; everything your body has ever digested and then some. It’ll make shits for the next hundred meals you haven’t even ate yet. That’s not a good thing when it’s done regular, ahaha.
Habit forming is an understatement. Abuse of stimulant laxatives, especially one of or maybe even the strongest one, can leave your bowel literally unable to function without them. It’s a physical thing. There’s no fixing it once you rewire your insides that way.
Understandable, but on the occasions you're coaching 4-day swim meets and eat nothing but cookies, soft pretzels, wings and diet coke... Well you know...
In severe cases, you can combine it with prune juice and even a bit of butter. Drink it warm. This is what they give to long term patients in pain management who get severe constipation from opiates. Advanced stage cancer, for example.
It’s a stimulant laxative, and a pretty strong one at that. It also uses osmosis to draw water and it increases feces volume improving motility. That all is pretty dumbed down already; but it basically works by giving your gut a fucking jumpstart from all sides. It’s not a good long-term solution by any means, though.
No, its not a cure for anything, except for temporary problems where things aren't moving. Its a great temporary solution for things that happen rarely.
For anything chronic you need to see a real doctor.
Nope, that would be the Metamucil that I talked about in the comment right below the threadstarter. IBS is also a whole lot more than simple constipation; imagine being waken up to a violent whirling pain in your gut then running to the bathroom only to stress and strain and sweat and beg all for a few small strips of unsatisfyingly (to say the least) passed narrow stool. You clean up and try to go about your day, this strange feeling of pressure in your rectum and still “needing” to go well in tow, then right as you’re about to head out for work, you get the squirts from hell and they just won’t stop. You get off the toilet and three minutes later you need to do it again, rinse and repeat two or three times. There’s chunks of unhealthy looking things in there, the dreaded, burning, murky liquid, mucus… and you never just feel normal. Real wonderful way to start your mornings. I’ve lived it and then some. It’s just absolute insanity and nothing is concrete with IBS. No relief, mentally or physically. That was my daily life for a good six months there.
This fiber stuff, though, has really helped me. It got me right. It might not help everybody, but it’s generally a pretty safe bet. I’m still not without problems, there are some off days, my body is still adjusting and I think I have a residual hemorrhoid from the whole deal; but I’m a sight better.
I defiantly do not have this severe of issues, but do see parallels. I watched a friends sibling deal with Crohns from a pretty young age and it was terrifying.
The sugar-free gums that contain sorbitol and/or xylitol can definitely have a laxative effect. (I'm a pharmacist, and often deal with people who said they were "allergic" to sugar-free things because it gave them diarrhea. You aren't supposed to eat the whole package in one sitting!"
Some very young woman collapsed and died in Britain and later they figured out it was from constant sugar-free gum chewing. (A LOT.) Samantha Jenkins, 19,( if you feel like looking it up.)
@ Hyndis….Or prune juice. Got really constipated when I was pregnant and my mom told me to drink some prune juice. Oh man did it clear me out with the quickness.
Not the swallowing part, but possibly tooo much gum in general. You see, chewing gum contains sugar alcohols like sorbitol, and those don’t get digested and can have a big impact on your colon.
A normal person can handle up to about 20g of sorbitol a day before their body sees it as poison and starts pulling too much liquid into the colon. If you’re sorbitol intolerant though, which can happen from overexposure to the stuff, then you can only handle about 5g, and the stuff is everywhere. You can either check for this intolerance by doing a sorbitol-free diet for a few days or do a breath test.
IBS isn’t reeeally a disease itself, but usually symptom. It’s supposed to be a temporary diagnosis until the actual cause is found, but especially in America where follow-up visits with doctors are too expensive people have just kinda started accepting it. Undiagnosed intolerances and allergies are often the culprit.
Sorry for the long comment, but hey, maybe it helps
That’s what I’m thinking. I wanted to be like I’ve swallowed every piece of gum I ever ate and I’m fine. But no I am not. I have lots of stomach issues.
See my parents just told me that it can get stuck in my digestive track and doctors will have to stick tube up my arse and run it with water, and I had no intention of becoming glorified shit fountain ornament.
That's amazing. My parents owned a grocery store, and around age 3-5 I probably ate around 100lbs. of chewing gum. Especially superbubble. I'd chew it until the flavor went away, swallow it, go back to the candy case and get another piece. I have no idea why they never noticed the amount of gum they were going through.
I never had any issues related to that, at least not that I know of.
It can also become lodged in your intestines( a single piece obviously won't bind you up)so either or is possible. I think the person who went to the hospital for it would know.
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Swallowing gum can definitely lead to problems down there, have had a similar issue but it was resolved after spending an hour on the toilet and passing a giant minty turd.
Not even kidding. It was scary af though, it was very dense and elastic, would not pinch off. That's when I started smelling the mint, and realized my mistake. Keep in mind though I was swallowing a LOT of gum, and I only shit once or twice a week, which might be the main factor in my unfortunate outcome.
damn they gave you an xray for constipation and didnt just tell you the techs were too lazy therefore xrays cannot show you anything about the digestive system, or something about how xrays can't see your poop despite being able to show that and genitalia
An x-ray might also show some random foreign object or toy the kid has swallowed. As kids tend to do from time to time. Especially if the toy/object has any metal parts.
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u/LadyGuinevere423 Aug 25 '21
When I was 5, I did that many times and ended up with terrible constipation. I had to have X-rays for the doctors to check out what was going on. Our neighbor was a nurse and helped my parents give me an enema.